Democrat Heather Boyd defeated Republican Katie Ford in the special election for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on May 16, meaning Democrats will retain their narrow one-seat majority in the state House.
Boyd, a former congressional and state legislative aide who quit her job as a senior adviser to Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Del.) in March to run, beat Ford, a military veteran, school volunteer, and behavioral therapist, by a count of 4,944 to 2,825, according to Politics PA.
The Associated Press called the race at about 10:40 p.m.
Boyd’s win gives Democrats 102 seats, the minimum number they need to control the agenda on state policies for issues such as elections, abortion access, and education funding in the 203-member House….